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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long did Thomas Lewis fight the disease before dying?
(a) 9 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 11 days.
(d) 5 days.
2. In All Smell is Disease, how many homes in 1849 were found to have offensive smells from bad drainage?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 3,000.
3. On September 6, to how many patients did Snow deliver chloroform?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.
4. In 1843, where did a proposal want to have cast-iron sewers transport waste?
(a) Cumbria and Suffolk.
(b) Kent and Essex.
(c) Surrey.
(d) Shropshire.
5. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 25,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Building the Case, within how many days did a tailor on Cross Street and his children die?
2. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?
3. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow suffer a stroke?
4. In The Ghost Map, in what publication did an unsigned editorial appear that lambasted Snow's waterborne theory of cholera?
5. In The Ghost Map, who was sometimes credited instead of Snow for the discovery of the waterborne theory of the dispersion of cholera?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was the removal of the pump handle on September 8 significant?
2. In The Ghost Map, why was Edmund Cooper sent to investigate the Broad Street epidemic?
3. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)
4. In Building the Case, what about the way that cholera affected the human body led Snow to believe that cholera was ingested and not inhaled?
5. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?
6. In All Smell is Disease, what one action did the Board of Health see was completed and why?
7. Why was the pump handle removed on September 8?
8. In The Pump Handle, why did Whitehead have a crucial edge in the cholera investigation?
9. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?
10. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?
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